WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1988
NO PROMISE OF STAY FOR II MOTHERS
TOLD THE THE SECRETARY FOR SECURITY, THE HON DAVID JEAFFRESON,
GOVERNMENT HAD NEVER LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY) THAT THE
WOULD GIVEN ANY INDICATION TO THE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT MOTHERS THAT THEY EVENTUALLY BE ALLOWED TO STAY IN HONG KONG.
GIVEN BIRTH то CHILDREN DIFFERENT FROM MANY
AS ADULT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS WHO HAD WHILE IN HONG KONG, THEIR CIRCUMSTANCES WERE NO THE GOVERNMENT HAD REPATRIATED, HE SAID.
LAI, MR WOULD RE GROSSLY
REPLYING TO A QUESTION BY THE HON RICHARD SAID THAT TO ALLOW THESE WOMEN TO STAY THOSE WHO HAD BEEN REPATRIATED OVER THE YEARS.
COMING
INTO HONG
JEAFFRRSON UNFAIR
то
THE VERY THE
ILLEGALLY, KONG
MR JEAFFRESON NOTED THAT IN OCTOBER 1980, BECAUSE OF LARGE NUMBER OF PEOPLE GOVERNMENT HAD TO ADOPT A POLICY OF RETURNING ALL UNLESS THERE WERE POWERFUL HUMANITARIAN REASONS IN INDIVIDUAL CASES
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS FOR DOING OTHERWISE
HUMANITARIAN TERMS WHEN "WE WERE PARTICULARLY SYMPATHETIC ON
HAD COME WHO
ΤΟ CHILDREN
HONG KONG CONSIDERING WHETHER TO ALLOW
STAY, ILLEGALLY TO JOIN THEIR MOTHERS HERE, WHETHER TO ALLOW THEM TO HE SAID.
LARGE
PRACTICE BECAME MORE AND MORE BUT HE POINTED OUT THAT THIS
WITH INCREASINGLY EXPLOITED BY
SNAKEHEADS, THE SO-CALLED NUMBERS OF CHILDREN BEING SMUGGLED IN ILLEGALLY.
ON ACTIVITY, DANGEROUS "SO TO PUT A STOP TO THIS ILLEGAL AND
то DECISION
TIGHTEN THE 27 APRIL 1987 THE GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCED ITS
WERF HUMANITARIAN GROUNDS UNDER WHICH SOME ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CHILDREN BEING ALLOWED TO STAY.
WHICH ΤΟ 'BUT WE GAVE PARENTS AND CLOSE RELATIVES 24 HOURS IN
AND JOINED BRING CHILDREN UNDER 14 WHO HAD ALREADY ARRIVED ILLEGALLY
DEPARTMENT FOR REGISTRATION, THEIR PARENTS HERE TO THE IMMIGRATION HE SAID.
ISSUE
MR JEAFFRESON SAID THE ONE-WAY
AUTHORITIES
IN
PERMITS TO
THESE CHILDREN
CHINA AFTER
HAD
AGREED
VERIFYING
ΤΟ THE
CHILDREN'S CIRCUMSTANCES.
APRIL 27 SMUGGLED
IN
WAS CLEARLY ILLEGALLY
HE EMPHASISED THAT THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF AIMED AT CHILDREN UNDER 14 BORN IN CHINA AFTER THEIR PARENTS HAD COME TO HONG KONG FOR SETTLEMENT.
AND
HOWEVER, A NUMBER OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT MOTHERS THE DEPARTMENT AT THE SAME TIME, HE SAID.
SURRENDERED TO
/OTHER ILLEGAL